Splash guard for sinks



April 6 1926.

J. J. LEIGHTON SPLASH GUARD FOR SINKS Filed June 16 1925 I N V EN TOR. .7611) J BY $4M.

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Patented Apr. 6, 1926.

1 NIIE: TATE JOHN J. LEIGH-TON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

SPLASH GUARD non SINKS.

Application filed June 16, 1925. Serial No. 37,565.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. l inierrroiv, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Splash Guards for Sinks, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to splash guards for sinks and an object of the invention is to provide a novel means for effecting the vertical adjustment of the .splash guard with reference to the anchoring or securing means by which the splash guard is held on the sink. A further object of the invention is to provide a novel means of effectively securing or anchoring a splash guard to a sink.

To these and other ends, the invention consists'of certain parts and combinations of parts, all of which will be hereinafter described: the novel features being pointed out in the appended claims.

in the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the sink, having the splash guard secured in place thereon;

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a similar section, showing the splash guard before it is applied to the sink;

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4. l, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a section similar to Fig. 2, showing another form of anchoring means which may be employed for sinks having depending skirts.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 indicates the sink which has a rolled edge 2. To this rolled edge the splash guard 3 is secured by a' means to be described, the splash guard, in this instance, being in the form of-a sheet metal plate having a flange or lip 4 turned inwardly from the upper edge thereof. In order to adjustably support this plate 3 on the sink, adjusting means is provided comprising one or more plates 5, secured to the rear face of the splash guard in any suitable manner as by rivets 6 andhaving inwardly turned flanges 7 at opposite edges forming between them an undercut guide. For cooperation with this guide member, a guide member is provided on the anchoring means and comprises a strip or plate 8 having its opposite edges bent or deflected in converging relation, their outer faces being spaced apart at such a distance that they may cooperate with the inner faces of the flanges 7, so as to be adjustable on said flanges. In order to hold the two parts of the adjusting devices in their relatively adjusted positions, a set screw 10 is provided which passes through the plate 8 and is adapted to cooperate with the bottom of the undercut groove between the walls 7 thereof. v

The anchoring means of which there may be any suitable number, two in this distance, being shown, comprises in Figs. 1 to 3, a curved arm 11 which conforms to the curvature of the upper face of the roll 2. At its inner end it has the adjusting piece 8 se cured thereto at 11 while its outer end is deflected inwardly at 11 and rolled at 11 to provide eyes to which at 13 a curved spring compression member 12 is pivoted. This spring compression member is slightly greater in diameter than the curve on the underside of the roll 2, so that when the member 12 is swung upwardly, it will 00- operate with the wall of the sink 1 and be compressed, it afterwards being forced into close contact with the under face of the wall 2, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby effectively holding the splash guard upon the sink.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 5, the sink 1 has a roll 2 provided with a depending skirt 2 The anchoring member or curved arm 11 conforms to the top surface of the roll 2 and has a portion 11* extending downwardly over the outer face of the skirt 2 and carrying at its lower end, an inwardly turned portion 11 which also carries a spring lip 11 for engagement with the lower edge of the skirt, in order to maintain the curved arm upon the rolled edge of the sink.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided a splash guard for sinks in which a novel adjusting means is employed through which the splash guard may be adjusted vertically with reference to the anchoring means. There is also then provided a novel means for detachably securing the splash guard to the sink. This means in both embodiments employs a curved arm passing around the roll of the sink, one end of said arm having the splash guard supported thereon and the other end of said arm having means for securing the arm on said roll. In one embodiment a pivoted curved spring or resilient member engages the sink below the roll to compress the member which also snugly fits the under surface of the roll.

\Vhat I claim as my inrention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A splash guard having a guide on the rear face thereof, and a supporting arm for the splash guard curred to conform to the roll of a sink and having a portion adjustalile on said guide.

2. The con'ihination with a splash guard,

of a strip secured to the rear face thereol? and having converging flanges supporting means for the guard having a strip provided with diverging flanges received under the converging flanges of the strip on the splash guard, and a set screw carried by the last mentioned strip and engaging the first mentioned strip between its converging flanges to hold the splash guard in its adjusted position. 

